Fire Starter Knife Accessory

Svashtar said:
I tried something like this when I was a kid and about burned the house down. Took a thin sheet metal tube and capped it at both ends, drilled a small exhaust hole in one end, and then filled it with match heads. Then secured the tube to a long piece of hi-test line with two fishing line quick-detach swivel clips. The idea was to make a little rocket that could skate along the line. Didn't count on the fact that a whole bunch of matchheads in a confined space makes an incredibly hot flame. The tube basically melted as it scooted along the line, and the whole blazing chunk fell onto the grass near the house and caught it on fire.

My sister and I put it out with the garden hose, but had some 'splaining to do.

I don't know about a tennis ball, as it doesn't seem to me to be particularly lethal (Hit the dirt! He's got a fused Penn Championship!) but I have no doubt that the same number of match heads inserted into a capped piece of pipe and fused could easily kill someone.


Norm
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ROTFLMFAO!!!!!:D :D :D :D I bet you were in the hot seat. That story is cracking me up. Imagine all the trouble you went to. What a design. Then all of a sudden, after all that ingenuity...you're grounded.
 
Each and every MRE has the making's of a bottle rocket right there in the accessories packet. And, many's a hapless troop that recieved a stern a$$ chewing and extra duty for letting his buddies talk him into "earning his missile badge". :grumpy: :rolleyes: :D

Sarge
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Each and every MRE has the making's of a bottle rocket right there in the accessories packet. And, many's a hapless troop that recieved a stern a$$ chewing and extra duty for letting his buddies talk him into "earning his missile badge". :grumpy: :rolleyes: :D

Sarge
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Sarge, did you earn your badge and therefore are speaking from experience? ;) :rolleyes: :p
 
Take a C02 cartidge that is empty, and cut off the nipple. Cut off the heads of regular cardboard matches, and lightly (!) pack them into the cartridge by tapping on a hard surface. When filled completely, one match head will protrude, which is your fuse. To be safer, use a firecracker fuse for a fuse...

Place the C02 cartridge into a 3' or longer length of pipe, and aim the pipe at your target. The C02 cartridge is placed in the back of the pipe :rolleyes: and the fuse is lit. If you use the match head as a fuse, the C02 rocket takes about 4 seconds before it develops thrust and blasts out of the tube. I heard that it will penetrate 3/4 plywood. :)
 
The Bad Idea/Incendiary Thread...


Mm. I'm afraid to contribute. I am taking notes, though.

The blastmatch thing works great. I accidently lit a paperback book on fire demonstrating it.

"If you use the match head as a fuse, the C02 rocket takes about 4 seconds before it develops thrust and blasts out of the tube. I heard that it will penetrate 3/4 plywood." :eek:

Another bad idea thread- the 37mm grenade launcher:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366410&highlight=37mm



Ad Astra
 
I guess I started a dangerous thread. I just wanted a little accessory to add to a pukko sheath. Oh well. Please don't loose your... well don't go loosing anything...:rolleyes:
 
aproy1101 said:
I guess I started a dangerous thread. I just wanted a little accessory to add to a pukko sheath. Oh well. Please don't loose your... well don't go loosing anything...:rolleyes:
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:D

Escalation, it's the American way.

DaddyDett
 
munk said:
<snick>
I wonder if carrying a small lens wouldn't be good too.


munk
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May I respectfully suggest looking through your local "dollar store" for a fresnel lens.
Look in the stationary (1) department.
They come in 2 sizes:
8 1/2 X 11 sometimes with a hole punch.
credit card size.

You might also pick up a $1 bag of "Green Army Men" - just for testing purposes you understand.


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(1) Paper and such, not holding still.
Dude: Do you keep stationary.
Clerk: Up to the last moment, then I just go wild.
 
Drdan said:
Take a C02 cartidge that is empty, and cut off the nipple. Cut off the heads of regular cardboard matches, and lightly (!) pack them into the cartridge by tapping on a hard surface. When filled completely, one match head will protrude, which is your fuse. To be safer, use a firecracker fuse for a fuse...

Place the C02 cartridge into a 3' or longer length of pipe, and aim the pipe at your target. The C02 cartridge is placed in the back of the pipe :rolleyes: and the fuse is lit. If you use the match head as a fuse, the C02 rocket takes about 4 seconds before it develops thrust and blasts out of the tube. I heard that it will penetrate 3/4 plywood. :)
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A grade school classmate of mine lost fingers doing that.
Others have died.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Local kid lost an eye and two fingers. His sister just has a badly scarred face to live with.

We could discuss the "benefits" of driving drunk.
 
I've been in three auto accidents. Three accidents - three, what is the PC term, "impaired" drivers. Didn't shoot a single one. (Maybe I should carry a ballpeen hammer.)
 
Hi Sarge:

Now I've just gotta know how to turn the accessory pack into a missle. I have a pack on my kitchen counter from the last MRE I ate.

Thanks, Steve
 
It would be irresponsible of me to describe how to construct a potentially hazardous incendiary device on a public forum. Exam the contents a while and you'll figure it out.

Sarge

p.s.: you can use your Opinel to cut the heads off the matches ;)
 
Back to the original topic for a second. Andy, one way to get your hands on a small ferrocium rod, to say, pair up with a neck knife, is to "harvest" one off an old G.I. issue magnesium fire starter. They look like this;
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You can usually pick 'em up at surplus stores/gun shows for six or seven bucks. The ferrocium rod is usually lightly glued into a groove on the edge of the magnesium block. If you clamp the block vertical in a vise, and use a hammer and pin punch to tap the end of the ferrocium rod, it'll break loose and fall free. Clean it up, put a handle on it if you like, and incorporate it into your next knife sheath. You can retain the block of magnesium, and pack it along in your ruck if you like, but I never have had to resort to it.

Sarge
 
Which reminds me about carrying wood chips to help start a fire during an emergency; if you don't have any of this 'pitch', another good thing to have are dried orange peels.

seriously- in cold country there may not be much dry wood around, and a little something extra to let the fire catch is smart.

>>>>>>>>>

I'm glad the injury cost of matchead and other childhood combustable pranks was mentioned. I think that balances this thread nicely, in case a younger person was reading.


munk
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
Kitchen matches? They still sell 'em around here. I always carry a few in an old brass "waterproof" (yeah right) matchsafe.

Gotta be careful with them things, can't leave 'em laying around. Don't you know if a mouse grabs one in his mouth and takes off running with it, he's liable to strike the durn thing and set your house on fire. An ancient bit of lore (more like urban legend) I was taught as a child.

Sarge
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You know , its proabably as likely as a monkey typing a novel .
You do have to say its possible . If a mouse were to grab one in its mouth a match wouldn,t suddenly become fireproof . It is possible the match could strike something and flame your house . I wouldn,t worry about it too much !
Now if it grabbed a BLAST MATCH that might be another story ! L:O:L
 
aproy1101 said:
Thanks sarge.

I haven't found strike anywhere matches in a long time. I don't know if they are legal or not though.

I read in the anarchists cookbook you could make a grenade with them. Drill a hole in a tennis ball and fill with match heads. THen throw the ball at something and boom. I always thought that was bullhockey. Anybody know for sure?

I've read, more on topic, that cotton balls soaked in vaseline were excellent tender for a survival kit. Haven't tried it yet though.
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I've always wanted to try the tennis ball thing from the Anarchist's Cookbook. It seems like it should actually work. I've never had access to enough strike anywhere matchheads (when I have seen them in a store they only had a couple boxes) and a tennis ball at the same time. I do wonder about the bounce though...seems like it would start to bounce back before the structure of the ball was fully destroyed...
 
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